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Re: whos going to down load BBM for their iphone/android?

thanks granite rock YUP GOOGLE DROPPED THe ball big time, I tried to download some and they all asked to install diff programs. Totally unacceptable. Where and how do we give google a blast of sheite???

I reported about 5-6 fake apps aswell. I just checked the play store and seems there is no more fakes out there.

Maybe coming out soon!

I will be downlading, still have friends/family on Blackberry aswell.

not yet anyway 3:12 ATL time.

More fakes are appearing now, last time i checked this morning there was atleast 10, then it went down to about 5, just checked about 30 mins ago and i saw 2.

Just checked now, and i see 4!

Yeah there's a bunch of different ones. Google needs to get their act together. They should be able to filter submissions by keywords. Anything with BBM and Blackberry should be reviewed by a real person and not published until it is. Then they can get the real app up on the store and not worry about any more fakes.

I saw those this morning, too, no real bbm as of a few hours ago.

Your non stop issues were with the Blackberry Server, it's far from intuitive and a pain in the ass to manage.

ok here is a question that i even asked the folks at black berry. Will i be able to use BBM on my I phone and my android simultainiously at the same time to chat with people while retaining one single pin?

I just got the app for the ios from the apple india app store, and im planning to sign in, i already got a bbid, can i down load it once it comes out to my android tab and sign in with the same bbid? will i not have douplicate pinns?
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Every BBM user has a unique PIN that maintains your privacy, so you don"t have to give out your phone number or email address to a new or casual contact.

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I really wonder what happened.

The BBM twitter feed keep's posting whenever a new release is done for a region (India, UAE, Australia, etc) for the Iphone, but nothing further on the status of the Android release. The last communication was:

10:28 AM - 21 Sep 13
Thanks for your patience #Android users! Working hard to get you the real #BBM ASAP. We'll let you know when it's live. #BBM4ALL

It would be nice to get further details as to what happened or when to expect an update. Did BB not learn from their last system failure? They communicated nothing and p-o'ed alot of people!

Oh i think were close!

I dont see anymore fake app in the Play Store!

Kind of offtopic, but man, this is complete BS and I think to myself "what kind of tech do you call yourself" if you can't figure it out.

I run a GroupWise farm - so let's call a spade a spade, I'm in the fringe set of admins, with odd software that people wouldn't normally even be using, and I've been through BES 3, 4, and onto 5 and now have a 10 server (BDS and UDS) and frankly, it is simple to use and quite simple to set it up... assuming you have some skill. Day to day management is brain dead easy.

My ONLY complaint about BES is in both exchange and groupwise (I don't know about lotus) you had to be quite careful in the 3/4 days to make sure your patch level was in the support matrix or you could run into problems. With 5 this is true, but less so as it is much more lenient. You had to match your matrix of BES revision to the Exchange/GroupWise revision or you could have problems.

With 10, the whole bloody thing is activesync, and it doesn't even care if I am running Groupwise (Mobile Services) or Exchance. It's just activesync... behind the firewall in my case.

The OLD BBM was PIN to PIN only. The newer releases since OS5 if I recall correctly, have been via your BlackBerryID.

You can still PIN to PIN people from blackberry to blackberry or playbook to playbook, or add people to BBM by PIN or add them by email but in the back end, everything is "logged in" via your BlackBerryID. Device to device communication blackberry to blackberry or any PIN based device is still PIN to PIN, in the background.

Activesync is ONLY for syncing mail and calendar and tasks.

BES 10 still talks to the device via a device to server in the background type VPN, there is no longer the need for the "Enterprise" service plan with the carrier. With BES 10 (BDS specifically) the device talks to BES, not activesync. The BES talks to activesync. Your device still gets in behind the firewall so you don't need to setup anything special. Works like it always did. So there is no loss in functionality.

BES 10 Universal Device Services, require a VPN on your device is you use an apple or android, assuming you're like us, and won't let activesync outside the firewall. Your device talks to UDS (have to setup an apple supplied certificate to get those devices to talk to it), and you have full wipe and security and can even blacklist a* devices based on if they are rooted or whatever you decide your policy is. In this case, your device is talking to activesync directly, but managed by UDS. You don't need to use a VPN if your activesync is outside the firewall, but frankly, that is asinine and not safe IMHO.

BES 10.1 mind you, now has "Secure Workspace" for apple and android which makes your device work like a regular BES10 device. No VPN client. Does not talk to activesync directly. The server talks to activesync for your device, just like BES10 BDS. Requires Activesync 12.1.

So apparently the leaked pre-release app is to be blamed for delay.

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Prior to launching BBM for Android, an unreleased version of the BBM for Android app was posted online. The interest and enthusiasm we have seen already – more than 1.1 million active users in the first 8 hours without even launching the official Android app – is incredible. Consequently, this unreleased version caused issues, which we have attempted to address throughout the day.

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We know you’re waiting. Pausing #BBM4All rollout to fix issues caused by unreleased BBM for Android app. Read more: http://t.co/rKCN4BNNXo

— BBM (@BBM) September 22, 2013

This gets an award for sugar coating bad news as this article points out that on the plus side BBM got 1.1 million android subscribers without actually releasing an app. More to the point of the thread it does at least show there is still quite a bit of interest in BBM.

»crackberry.com/blackberry-added-···-release

Pathetic.

»mobilesyrup.com/2013/09/21/black···e-cause/

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BlackBerry ceases worldwide BBM rollout, cites earlier Android leak as the cause

Turns out there was an issue caused by an earlier leak of the app, one that brought an incomplete experience to users around the world. BlackBerry has since decided to cut off access to that version, leaving 1.1 million users without service until further notice. The company is also discontinuing the rollout on iOS until further notice, and will likely wait until it can bring a new Android version that lacks interplay with the leaked one.

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does it have to be a phone or can bbm work on an ipad/ipod, or Droid powered Tablet?

I will download it. Still got friends on BB. The new BB is pretty nice.

I imagine is not the delay in the downloadable app, its probably the pin access or distribution system and/or their server farms upgrades/changes.

Hmm I wonder if they will even do it now.................

I'm beginning to wonder that too. Wonder if they pulled it due to the sale

I was thinking the same thing.

One of the updates from BB i read today was something to the effect of a leaked version causing problems and them not expecting 1.1 million users, albeit the leaked version.

But my question is, why would you not expect 1.1 milliong users? if it was the official version, you would have had as many hits for the app. Which leads me to believe there were no way prepared for this launch.

What if this was all just a social experiment to show potential buyer Fairfax that there is still a lot of interest for BBM out there. Once the experiment ended and showed off interest, they pull it.

Very interesting indeed...

Even then, 1.1 million hits is peanuts for a company with global presence. I hope the guys at Fairfax didn't find that very impressive.